#cripple your art

[bigcowboydyke]

PSA for artists during disability pride month

CRIPPLE YOUR ART

From experience: Sleeping with a prosthetic limb on is like sleeping with a backpack still strapped to you after a long day of school ok yall gotta stopppppp making art where characters are wearing a prosthetic to chill or nap or have sexy time come onnnn now

Yes yes i acknowledge nuances and suspension of disbelief and magic and exceptions blah blah blah but the point of this post is that as a limb different bitch IM TELLING YOU yall gotta get past the aesthetic of able bodiedness and get comfy w understanding and representing disabled bodies in their natural state bc it's limiting your art and yall don't even know it. Cripple your art, you cowards!!!

(This is a desperate plea from a one-armed Trigun 98 fan art enjoyer)

[super-nova5045]

sylvia plath, todd anderson and virginia woolf (aka ACTUAL tortured poets) watching taylor “im breaking up with my boyfriend for his intense depression and blaming it on him, im dating a racist who enjoys watching woc being brutalized and harasses young woc artists, i sent my fans out on a hate train to attack a young woc actress for a line she had to say as part of her job to show how mentally ill her character was, im dating a maga supporter, i refuse to say anything about a current genocide despite being the most influential person in the world right now, i am a billionaire, i fly 13 minute flights and have the highest carbon emission of any celebrity, i am a known white feminist who only speaks about issues when it affects me and has constantly let my fans get away with extreme racism and even encouraged it by associating myself with known racists” swift call herself a tortured poet (her writing sounds like a bunch of thesaurus words slapped over gabba hanna and rupi kaur-esque poetry that was created purely as a trinket for an edgy pinterest board)

[gayaest]

Hey guys. Another reminder:

Please do not tag my artwork with the c slur (cripple), in any capacity. I find it extremely uncomfortable and frankly rude to engage with my art by essentially calling me /and/ my artwork as “cripple”.

This includes CripplePunk tags, especially on characters that do not hold attributes that align with punk culture. It feels like you guys just see someone with a disability and /want/ to call them a cripple. It’s honestly annoying, and coming from other disabled people feels like… come on guys. I did not consent to my artwork being called a slur.

You can call yourself that, but you can’t force others to. That’s not what reclamation is.

Thank you for listening.

[gumi-writes]

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Though her general lack of enthusiasm extends to anything destructive, Sabri’s quiet, unwavering confidence and utter unflappability don’t spawn from nowhere.

(Bonus Sabri (as fake love interest) Character Lore below!)

Beyond Death Itself

Deep in the murky depths of an impenetrable vault only accessible to the highest of Senobium authority, rests an enchanted box that houses a heart with no owner. Rumoured to be recovered from the rotten corpse of something long gone, it still beats the drum of life anyway, ceaselessly steady. Remarkably, this remains the case despite how it is now cleanly bisected, one half’s whereabouts a mystery to all but privileged few.

[grimvestige]

Since art fight is soon, Satoru gets an updated ref sheet! :3

I included dango this time since the party has learned he really likes dango.

[genderqueerdykes]

new jewelry in my shop, including some new pride jewelry and a lot of glass bead bracelets! =)

if you are interested in supporting me, i am a disabled schizophrenic trans cripple who has very little income because i am applying for disability. i currently need help as just lost some of my government aid due to not being told i needed to renew some paperwork on time and i am losing my housing on February 28th, 2023 and need help saving up funds to relocate Now. please consider giving my shop a look, but no pressure if you can't. thank you for your time.

[rozzsum]

The Rise of the Dragon / House of the Dragon

[xviistrings]

bruh (tag rant)

[anachronisticmech]

📌Welcome to my blog.

bloodbot-brian -> anachronisticmech

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-> my asks are open for anything but vents. do not vent to me.

-> i genuinely make every character i like disabled, please dont kick up a stink because i drew jonny d'ville with a prosthetic leg or a hearing aid.

-> i prefer communicating formally, please do not make fun of me for this.

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[mxdotpng]

its in queue so sorry for being confusing you'll get the full picture in a month but. like. 'gacha art style' is not a thing. by the way. you only think its a thing because there are like 5 popular gacha games made by the exact same studio and the exact same developers saturating the market.

[bigcowboydyke]

about your disability pride month post: is there anything important/significant you think people should take notes on when writing a character with an upper arm prosthetic? (like starting from the elbow if i phrased correctly)?

Yeah! I think the biggest is that you ought to consider first, esp if its an OC, your reasoning for making the character disabled- you wanna make sure you're not fetishizing or exploiting their disability to prop up abled characters. I've got a list of questions for authors to ask themselves along those lines that I can post or dm

Secondly, you have to consider what level of realism you wanna go with. If you have a character where, in universe, the prosthesis functions in exactly the way an arm does, you could just go with that if you want - it's the path of least resistance, right? BUT you ought to consider that most prostheses in media exist in that way AT THE EXPENSE of good representation of disability. Erasing disability or "curing" it with magical prostheses IS a form of ableism that is so pervasive it just goes unnoticed by most. I believe personally that disabled bodies are worth portraying well even when the creators of the source material did not do that. SO if you want to go with real well thought our representation, here are some common things I think authors and artists often miss (specifically as it pertains to upper limb prostheses):

1) I already said this, but seriously, I cannot emphasize enough that upper limb prosthetics ain't cheap and are usually uncomfortable. Your character, if they are poor, or even like middle class, won't have access to multiple high tech popular mechanics cover story type robo arms. Even if they did ...

2) Not all limb different folks use prosthetics! I personally have used multiple and I disliked them. I tried very hard to learn, but there are multiple requirements to be able to use each model and sometimes, a lot of times actually, limb different people - especially people without a hand or an arm function Better without prosthetics. Be aware in your art that limb different people are Whole. How you ask can somebody without an arm, say, do all that stuff?

3) Consider the idea of adaptation in your writing and art instead of relying only on magicking disability away with prosthetics. Disabled People live in a world full of barriers and tend to be Very creative about navigating it, adapting to our environment through just being a little clever about how we do things is the biggest way i see other people with upper limb differences interact with the world. There are three main ways that we go about this without prosthetics: Using adaptive equipment, Finding an alternate method, or as a last resort, asking for help.

Example 1: I have like 1.5 arms ok so obviously only 1 hand, and I need to clip my fingernails every once in a while. The obvious solution to me, while it may seem gross, is just to bite them off. Bad habit, but efficient. I could use those horrible little nail clippers, with my remaining stump and a little finagling but it takes forever. I could also get some adaptive nail clippers - they make great big handled ones for ppl that can't grab the little ones. Or, I could ask my partner to trim them, but I'm usually too proud to do that. Let disabled people have their flaws too lol!

Example 2: I love to rock climb. This is where adaptive equipment comes in. I could slip off a rock climbing wall pretty easily right? So bouldering (rock climbing without harnesses) is totally inaccessible to me. But if I go to a gym that has harnesses, then that's fine - they catch me if I fall and that's adaptive for me.

Adaptive equipment comes in many shapes and sizes and can be regular items repurposed.

3. If after all that you Must create art or write about an OC or preexisting character that uses upper limb prosthetics, consider that in general, limb different people's prosthetics are not equivalent to having two arms. Prosthetics are only practical for limb different people if they enhance your life or are useful in some way, however, getting one high tech enough to do that is unlikely because they are expensive. There are different groups, clinics, and charities that make lower cost options but they tend to be much lower tech than is depicted (and often are clunky). My first prosthetic was a long flat piece of metal, similar to a doctors tongue depressor, attached to a plaster cuff velcroed around my stump. The idea was that since I had a little bit of stump poking out, I could pin objects against the metal and it would work like a crab's pincers. It was okay, but I did accidentally smack many. Many. Things with it, including my own face and since it was metal, that was unpleasant. Obviously hindered more than helped. Also it did not look even remotely like a hand.

4. Which prosthetics you can get generally depend on what you got on you. Literally. Bodily. With upper limb prostheses, If you don't have an elbow or wrist, your options are almost exclusively limited to the pricier electric options that are both super futuristic, unavailable to many, and also like new car priced. Many of the manual, non-electric models depend on the ability to flex a wrist or elbow, so if you have those things are a little more accessible overall. It also matters whether you are born limb different like me, or if you are an amputee. Amputees are more likely to be candidates for prostheses than people like me because they have all those preexisting muscles and nerves for prosthetics that are higher tech and require surgical attachment Also prosthetics might be an easier learning curve, and more useful for somebody who has been abled bodied than it would be for somebody who never had that limb in the first place.

5. This is a little thing and ... Not to get too medical with it ( and neither should yall) but limb different people often have physical changes associated with lack of or loss of limb. If you do not have a limb, you are not going to be developing the muscles that are surrounding it in the way an a nondisabled person would. Again for example I have 1.5ish arms which means I've got plenty of stump on my "affected" limb. Even when I did Varsity sports and everything, I was never able to get beefy on that side. It is a pet peeve of mine that many people do not seem to get this - Most art I see of vash the stampede has him with two super beefy shoulders and like yeah i get it that's hot, but if hes got roughly the same amount of stump as me, he probably shouldn'tlook like that. Another thing in this vein is chronic pain is associated with limb loss and limb difference- I have it and its reasonable that any prosthetic user or nonprosthetic using limb different person is more likely to have it. Again these are little things but if you're looking to do good representation you need to consider that limb difference is not just a cool little stylistic choice to make a character look tough or what have you - limb loss and limb difference mean that that character will not only think differently than abled bodied people, but move differently, pose differently, have different routines and preferences than are ever represented in most media. Disability is not a style, and it's not a diagnosis, it's an identity. It's important above all to be respectful of that by letting go of centering able-bodied expectations and aesthetic in your art and writing. Hard to do but i believe in y'all!

Hope that helps! I've also got a bunch of links to go along with these points, if you want them lmk! I'm always happy to take asks about this stuff!

Tl;dr please consider making characters that don't use prosthetics, or don't use them excessively because it's more realistic, better representation, and makes me, a disabled dyke on the internet, really happy.

Lastly if y'all liked my advice and appreciate my time you are always welcome to tip me for it - my c*sh*pp is $neptunedrive

[satvrniia]

Emergency Commission Sale!

Hello everyone! My partner, roommate, and I just found out today that our lease is not getting renewed when it comes up in May. This would be fine except for the fact that we have no savings for a deposit and we're getting priced out of the area we're living in too. We are a household of three autistic trans people, two of us are also disabled, and live in the midwest US. Please help spread this around so we can raise the roughly $4000 USD we will need to get a place in a safe area.

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[54prowl]

eh?

[paperbakc]

listening to phonk songs while doing tedious physics numericals does serve good for the imagination. A kickass physics prodigy. Light Yagami vibes.

[spagetmonster]

Great filter this, great filter that. Anyone gonna talk about the great literary filters that stop me from writing shit.

Here they are:

1. Can't figure out the plot.

2. This would be better as a graphic novel/manga/comic (tragically, not an artist)

3. This is a fun idea but can I really just keep writing a story with no idea how to end it and just keep adding onto it forever?

4. FUCK YEAH I CAN DO THAT I CANT WAIT TO-oh my anxiety + crippling fear of letting things go and moving on from them killed it.

[s-h-commatothetop-dynasty]

ok as much as i love creating art, both seeing the final result as well as the process of making things.... it’s so fucking exhausting

like i could spend HOURS making something, be it extremely simple or intricate as fuck… and whenever i look at it while making it.. i’ll see the hours i put in and the effort it took to make it….

but it could look like shit to everyone else.

like other people could look at that and go “mm i don’t like that actually”

WHICH IS FINE

EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN TASTE AND IS ENTITLED TO THEIR OPINIONS

but if i’m doing designing for someone else or for a group project, it does matter what other people think and it fucking sucks

(unless they love it in which case.. yippee!!!!!! validation!!)

but sometimes they don’t and that’s ok i just need to learn to be ok with it..

but that’s fucking difficult :(